Kregg Lumpkin, who played in all 16 games for Tampa Bay last season, was doing his best to stay in shape while also pondering whether to accept a job offer in real estate in Atlanta.
While some are pondering whether this is Miuccia Prada's statement on "normcore" (the unisex trend of wearing unbranded, androgynous clothing as a back-handed style statement) the collection could be more simply described as pared-back, 70s-poolside dressing with an emphasis on shape and form.
The price of leasehold land in prime areas of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, for instance, has almost doubled in the past two years while Central was pondering whether to invest.
It built a big business in its contract on German government bonds, known as Bunds, starting in 1988, while German authorities were still pondering whether futures trading was a good idea.
Rip-off merchants "are acting rationally, driven in their behaviour by the benefits and costs", as Nobel prize-winner Gary Becker put it - while he was no doubt pondering whether to sell that tourist the Brooklyn Bridge.
Not only do they have a big scan of the poster you can look at while the official site is pondering whether to let you download the zipped file, but they also have all the posters from the original trilogy for your delectation, and links to plot updates from USA Today.
In an absorbing and potentially pivotal concluding race on Friday, Ainslie slowed while holding a big lead, seemingly pondering whether to wait for Hogh-Christensen and try to sail him down the fleet to affect his finishing position.
While writing his forthcoming book, "Synthetic Worlds", Mr Castronova has been pondering whether real economies could be run for fun too.
While few of his contemporaries would have gone that far, it may be worth pondering whether today's penalties swing too high in the other direction.
